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the confusion in nomenclature of certain members of this genus, which he at- 
tributes to one species, redescribed and renamed (p. 70) copiosa^ and to which 
he refers his own C. hypostigma, ch'cumdata, notatay and lineataj Chloropisca 
ornnta, Lw., Oscinis cireumdata and notata, Zett., and (dubiously) Chlorops 
hypostigma^ notatn^ ch'cumdata, and ornato, Meig., as synonyms. He recapi- 
tulates recorded instances of swarms of this insect, and refers generally to 
the difficulty of correctly determining members of the group. 
Phortica, Schiner,=^»moto, Lw. : Loew, 1. c. p. 112. 
Blepharoptera sp. : larvse and pupae swarm in bat-excreta, in a cave of the 
Ari^ge : Abeille, fitud. Col. Cay. p. 12. 
Diplocentraj Lw.,= Cyrtonotum^ Macq. (nec Steph.) : Loew, 1. c. p. 112. 
Opetiophara^ g. n., id. 1. c. p, 106. Chloropides. Agrees somewhat with 
Lipara, but with last abdominal segment of 5 prolonged into a horny subu- 
late terebra. O. stramineaj sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 105, Texas. 
New species : — 
Tachina {Exoristd) pliycitce (Le Baron, MS.), Biley, iv. Rep. Ins. Mo, 
p. 40, bred from Phycita nelndo, Walsh {Lcp.'). 
Gymnoaomn Loew, l.c. p. 02, Texas. 
Plvpharopcza adusta, id. ihid., California (from larvro of Spilosonm mrcd), 
Antliomyia sonchi, p. 209, from Sonchus olcraccus, and vl. p. 254, 
from Senecio, Scotland : J. Hardy, Scot. Nat. i, 
Homalomyia tetracantha, Loew, 1. c. p. 93, Middle States. 
Coenosia nivea^ calopyga, p. 95, Pennsylvania, modesta, p. 96, Washington : 
id. 1. c. 
Schamomyza dorsalis, id. 1. c. p. 95, Columbia. 
Cordylura vittipes, lutea, p. 96, Sitka, fulvibarha, p. 97, Hudson’s Bay Ter- 
ritory, capillata, p. 88, New Hampshire : id. 1. c. 
Phytomyza hepaticce, Frauenfeld, Verb, z.-b. Wien, xxii. p. 396, bred from 
Ilepatica triloba, Vienna. 
Leucopis palumbii, Rondani, Bull. Ent. Ital. iv. p. 213, parasitic on Pem- 
phigus utricularius, Pass. {Aphid.), Italy. 
Sapromyza macula, Loew, 1. c. p. 101, Texas. 
Lauxania encephala, id. ibid., Texas. 
Hippelates pusio, p. 103, eulophus, p. 104, id. 1. c., Texas. 
Crassiseta eunota, id. 1. c. p. 104, Texas. 
Chlorops {Centor) procera, p. 106, Connecticut, C. {Diplotoxa) gundlachi, 
Cuba, and conjbtcns, p. 107, microcei'n, prdchripcs, p. 108, altei-nata, p. 109, 
nigricans, p. 110, C. (Anthracophaga) maculosa and Chlorops mellea, p. Ill, 
Texas : id. 1. c.\ 
Siphonclla latifrons, id. 1. c. p. 106, Texas. 
Notiphila pulchrifrons, id. 1. c. p. 102, Texas. 
Drosophila obesa, p. 102, siymoides, p. 103, Texas : id. 1. c. 
Sciomyza tenuipes, p. 99, Middle States, trabcculato, p. 100, Texas : id. 1. c. 
Blepharoptera discolor, New Hampshire, Texas ; id. 1. c. p. 99. 
CEsTRIDiE. 
For observations on a fly developed in the skin of man at Senegal, termed 
‘‘ Ver de Cayor ” by B^renger-Ft^raud, and wrongly referred to Ochromyia 
(anthropophaga, MS.) by Blanchard, cf. Guerin-M^neville, R. Z. (2) xxiii. 
p. 491. 
